When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people; those who let it happen; those who make it happen; and those who wonder what happened! When it comes to educating tomorrow's children what kind of edufuturist are you?

so that students have created new and fresh alternatives to the issue for solution.

4. NOW teacher switches back to convergent thinking by inviting students to identify criteria that would help students assess their tentative – creative solutions in order to evaluate these for their potential success.

Using their criteria students begin to filter their ideas and to isolate those that appear to have the most promise.

Students use additional or previous research, canvas other individuals, poll, use feedback to refine their ideas.

Students use additional criteria to isolate the solutions they have created to choose the most likely ideas.

5. So that now the learners have created their own filters to sift the ideas that likely would have never been generated unless they had engaged the creativity process in the first place.

6. And now they can “rate these ideas” to CONVERGE on the optimal solutions.

Next post will speak to how to “gain acceptance” for their creative problem solving.